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by The Huntington

The Huntington hosts approximately twenty public lectures each year on themes related to its collections. Subscribe to the podcast to be notified every time a new lecture is released.

Episodes

The DNA of Galaxies

1h 19m · Published 30 Apr 10:30

Allison L. Strom, Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, shows how astronomers use the world's largest telescopes to determine the chemical DNA of even very distant galaxies.

The Making of a Chinese Medicine Text

38m · Published 24 Apr 10:30

Sean Bradley, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, explores the history and development of an early text on emergency Chinese medicine, the Zhouhou beiji fang 肘後備急方 (Emergency Medicines to Keep on Hand), by the 4th-century alchemist and scholar, Ge Hong 葛洪.

Stars Under the Microscope: Ancient Stardust in Meteorites

1h 27m · Published 16 Apr 10:30

Larry Nittler, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution for Science, discusses his use of microscopic analyses to understand what tiny grains of dust in meteorites can tell us about the evolution of stars and the matter that became the sun and planets.

From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman

59m · Published 11 Apr 10:30

H.R. Woudhuysen, rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, talks about the market for old books and manuscripts in England in the time of the Tudors and Stuarts in this Zeidberg Lecture.

A New Tool to Map Entire Galaxies

1h 15m · Published 02 Apr 10:30

Rosalie McGurk, fellow in instrumentation at Carnegie Observatories, discusses the latest technological advances to build a new, custom-designed instrument for Carnegie Observatories' Magellan Telescopes that can peer into the Universe with extreme detail.

Botany and the Roots of the British Conquest of Sri Lanka

49m · Published 01 Apr 10:30

Sujit Sivasundaram, director of the Centre of South Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge, discusses the historic gardens that existed in Sri Lanka before the arrival of the British and the changes they faced during the colonial period.

Sino-Buddhist Medicine: A Missing Link in the Global History of Medicine

55m · Published 27 Mar 10:30

C. Pierce Salguero, associate professor of Asian history and religious studies at Penn State Abington, provides an introduction to the principles of Sino-Buddhist medicine, the product of centuries of cross-cultural exchange between medieval India and China.

Of Lizards, Laboratories, and History: The Making and Knowing Project

58m · Published 21 Mar 10:30

Pamela H. Smith, Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University, discusses her work with the Making and Knowing Project.

Glimpses of Cosmic Dawn

1h 12m · Published 19 Mar 10:30

Alexander Ji, Hubble Fellow at the Carnegie Observatories, leads a short tour of the early history of our Universe, offering intriguing glimpses of an epoch known as Cosmic Dawn, when the first stars and galaxies were born.

Golden: How California Made America

54m · Published 14 Mar 10:30

Louis Warren, professor of U.S. Western History at the University of California, Davis, explores how Californians remade American ideas of property and power between 1848 and the present.

Subscribe to The Huntington Lectures Podcast has 59 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 56:00:52. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 28th 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on September 20th, 2023 22:24.